#178 - 2016 in Review: What the hell?

10 conversations about the highs and lows of music in 2016:

1. Emmy winner Jeff Greenstein (Friends, Will & Grace) on when David Bowie guest starred on his first TV sitcom. (1:29)
2. How Melbourne indie soul band Cookin’ on 3 Burners had a smash hit on the French dance charts with a seven year old song. (14:35)
3. Americana singer/songwriter Melody Pool on finding her way back to her darkest emotional places to write her stellar album Deep Dark Savage Heart. (27:01)
4. ARIA-nominee Lisa Mitchell on struggling with how to listen to music in the modern age. (40:49)
5. Nashville-based Aussie ex-pat Emma Swift on being artistically radicalised by the election of Donald Trump. (45:34)
6. Filmmaker Brian Koppelman (Billions, Rounders, Ocean’s 13) on what music to listen to to get through the Trump blues, and what to expect from music in the coming years. (57:49)
7. Crowded House guitarist/keyboardist Mark Hart on the inside story of their triumphant reunion shows at the Sydney Opera House forecourt. (1:03:31) 
8. You Am I guitarist Davey Lane on a year of playing with his living heroes and paying tribute to his dead ones. (1:31:01)
9. Singer/songwriter Alex Lahey on writing some of the year’s best songs for her debut EP and what to expect from her imminent debut album. (1:32:08)
10. Host Jeremy Dylan reveals his 10 favorite albums of 2016. (1:49:24)

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My Favorite Album is a podcast on the impact great music has on our lives. Each episode features a guest on their favorite album of all time - why they love it, their history with the album and how it's influenced them.

Jeremy Dylan is a filmmaker, journalist, concert promoter and photographer. He directed the the feature music documentary Jim Lauderdale: The King of Broken Hearts (out now!) and the filmBenjamin Sniddlegrass and the Cauldron of Penguins.

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#177 - Harper Simon on The Beatles ‘White Album’

We kick off 2017 at the Chateau Marmont, where I join Harper Simon for bacon, eggs and coffee to talk about the most iconic double album in pop history - the Beatles White Album. 

We talk about how the album shows George Harrison coming into his own, the incredible musical diversity on the record, Eric Clapton and outside players guesting on Beatles records, whether knowing the Beatles personally changes how you listen to their music, whether or not ‘Revolution 9′ should’ve been cut from the album, the lyrical directness of the songs and that time Paul McCartney taught Harper how to play ‘Mother Nature’s Son’.

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My Favorite Album is a podcast on the impact great music has on our lives. Each episode features a guest on their favorite album of all time - why they love it, their history with the album and how it's influenced them.

Jeremy Dylan is a filmmaker, journalist, concert promoter and photographer. He directed the the feature music documentary Jim Lauderdale: The King of Broken Hearts (out now!) and the filmBenjamin Sniddlegrass and the Cauldron of Penguins.

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#176 - Andrew P Street on Models ‘Pleasure of Your Company’

Sydney Morning Herald columnist, author and podcaster (Double Disillusionists) Andrew P Street on the Aussie new wave classic ‘Pleasure of Your Company’, what makes a band like Models a band when the lineup is constantly changing, how this album changed the way he thought about Australian music, using musical taste to define your identity and how going from writing about music to writing about politics changed the way he listens and experiences music.

There’s almost no discussion of Peter Dutton.

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My Favorite Album is a podcast on the impact great music has on our lives. Each episode features a guest on their favorite album of all time - why they love it, their history with the album and how it's influenced them.

Jeremy Dylan is a filmmaker, journalist, concert promoter and photographer. He directed the the feature music documentary Jim Lauderdale: The King of Broken Hearts (out now!) and the filmBenjamin Sniddlegrass and the Cauldron of Penguins.

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#175 - Matt Farley (Motern Media) on why The Beach Boys ‘Love You’ is better than ‘Pet Sounds’

The man behind ‘Pappa Razzi and the Photogs’, 'The Passionate and Objective Jokerfan’ and an array of other musical identities in the Motern Media stable, Matt Farley, welcomes me into his Danvers MA studio to convince me that the greatest Beach Boys album is not 'Pet Sounds’ but actually their 1977 cult album 'Love You’.

We delve into the weird and murky circumstances of its creation, how it served as a sort of 'comeback album’ for the band who had been in danger of relegation to the oldies circuit, how Brian Wilson functioned without a lyricist, Mike Love’s controversial role in the BBs, how the band ageing gives some of their songs a creepy edge and more.

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My Favorite Album is a podcast on the impact great music has on our lives. Each episode features a guest on their favorite album of all time - why they love it, their history with the album and how it's influenced them.

Jeremy Dylan is a filmmaker, journalist, concert promoter and photographer. He directed the the feature music documentary Jim Lauderdale: The King of Broken Hearts (out now!) and the filmBenjamin Sniddlegrass and the Cauldron of Penguins.

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#174 - Lisa Mitchell on Regina Spektor ‘Begin to Hope’

ARIA-nominated singer-songwriter Lisa Mitchell on Regina Spektor’s ‘Begin to Hope’ and how it celebrates intelligence, eccentricity and imperfection. Plus, Lisa reveals the albums that inspired her latest record 'Warriors’ and discusses her favourite albums of 2016, and why she worries social media might be compromising her creativity.

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My Favorite Album is a podcast on the impact great music has on our lives. Each episode features a guest on their favorite album of all time - why they love it, their history with the album and how it's influenced them.

Jeremy Dylan is a filmmaker, journalist, concert promoter and photographer. He directed the the feature music documentary Jim Lauderdale: The King of Broken Hearts (out now!) and the filmBenjamin Sniddlegrass and the Cauldron of Penguins.

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#173 - Peter Bibby on Sleep ‘Dopesmoker’

WA singer-songwriter Peter Bibby and I pull up a pew at a Newcastle church to talk about the stoner metal epic ‘Dopesmoker’ by Sleep. One song over an entire album, a peon to weed.

We delve into the bizarre story of its creation and release, whether you need to be high to appreciate the album, whether it’s a good record to have sex to, and why it makes a good soundtrack to Donald Trump’s ramblings.

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My Favorite Album is a podcast on the impact great music has on our lives. Each episode features a guest on their favorite album of all time - why they love it, their history with the album and how it's influenced them.

Jeremy Dylan is a filmmaker, journalist, concert promoter and photographer. He directed the the feature music documentary Jim Lauderdale: The King of Broken Hearts (out now!) and the filmBenjamin Sniddlegrass and the Cauldron of Penguins.

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#172 - Slate’s Jack Hamilton on Stevie Wonder ‘Innervisions’ (1973)

Slate pop critic Jack Hamilton joins me to discuss Stevie Wonder’s sometimes overlooked classic album ‘Innervisions’, how it showcases Stevie’s political side, how he balanced sophisticated artistry with massive commercial success, the Red Hot Chilli Peppers version of 'Higher Ground’ and the remarkable dynamic Stevie has with his live audiences and what we might expect from Stevie in the age of President Trump.

Buy Jack’s excellent book 'Just Around Midnight: Rock'n'Roll and the Racial Imagination’ if you care at all about pop music, pop culture or knowing things.

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My Favorite Album is a podcast on the impact great music has on our lives. Each episode features a guest on their favorite album of all time - why they love it, their history with the album and how it's influenced them.

Jeremy Dylan is a filmmaker, journalist, concert promoter and photographer. He directed the the feature music documentary Jim Lauderdale: The King of Broken Hearts (out now!) and the filmBenjamin Sniddlegrass and the Cauldron of Penguins.

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#171 - Showrunner Blake Masters on Drive-By Truckers ‘The Dirty South’

Writer/producer Blake Masters (Falling Water, 2 Guns, Brotherhood) steps out of his edit suite to talk about the Drive By-Truckers’ 2004 masterwork ‘the Dirty South’.

We talk about the way the album plays to the strengths of the bands three songwriters - Patterson Hood, Mike Cooley and Jason Isbell, the continuing resonance of the Truckers work post-Trump, being the loyal opposition to the conservative side of the South, how they played against the stereotypes of a Southern Rock band, writing empathetic songs about 'bad guys’ and how Blake uses rock music in TV shows. Plus we hatch plans for a TV series based on the album.

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My Favorite Album is a podcast on the impact great music has on our lives. Each episode features a guest on their favorite album of all time - why they love it, their history with the album and how it's influenced them.

Jeremy Dylan is a filmmaker, journalist, concert promoter and photographer. He directed the the feature music documentary Jim Lauderdale: The King of Broken Hearts (out now!) and the filmBenjamin Sniddlegrass and the Cauldron of Penguins.

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#170 - Taylor Goldsmith (Dawes) on their new album ‘We’re All Gonna Die’, loving LA and the albums that inspire him

Presenting an off-model episode, a conversation between myself and Dawes frontman Taylor Goldsmith - on bulletproof coffee, how welcoming ex-bandmate Blake Mills into the producer chair changed the band’s approach to record making for “We’re All Gonna Die”, why the hipsters are wrong about LA, the inspiration he takes from Bob Dylan, Warren Zevon and Joni Mitchell and whether he feels like part of a creative community.

Check out my print interview with Taylor in the latest issue of Rhythms magazine, available here.

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My Favorite Album is a podcast on the impact great music has on our lives. Each episode features a guest on their favorite album of all time - why they love it, their history with the album and how it's influenced them.

Jeremy Dylan is a filmmaker, journalist, concert promoter and photographer. He directed the the feature music documentary Jim Lauderdale: The King of Broken Hearts (out now!) and the film Benjamin Sniddlegrass and the Cauldron of Penguins.

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#169 - Sadler Vaden on The Rolling Stones ‘Goats Head Soup’

Singer/songwriter Sadler Vaden, guitarist with Jason Isbell’s 400 Unit and ambassador for the timeless spirit of rock'n'roll, joins me to shine a light on an underrated classic from the Rolling Stones catalogue, 1973’s Goats Head Soup.

Why has this album always lived in the shadow of Exile on Main St? How did the guest musicians like Billy Preston influence these songs? Do Sadler and Jason Isbell fight over what the best Stones album is? Which song of Sadler’s is directly inspired by ‘Angie’? Why did the Stones record Goats Head Soup in Jamaica? Why don’t the Stones play most of these songs live? What lyric in 'Winter’ has Sadler been mishearing for years, and how does The Wire fit in?

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My Favorite Album is a podcast on the impact great music has on our lives. Each episode features a guest on their favorite album of all time - why they love it, their history with the album and how it's influenced them.

Jeremy Dylan is a filmmaker, journalist, concert promoter and photographer. He directed the the feature music documentary Jim Lauderdale: The King of Broken Hearts (out now!) and the film Benjamin Sniddlegrass and the Cauldron of Penguins.

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#168 - Guy Clark biographer Tamara Saviano on ‘Dublin Blues’, Guy’s songwriting process and his musical legacy

Journalist, publicist, manager, author and Grammy winning record producer Tamara Saviano joins us to discuss her friend, the subject of her new book Without Getting Killed or Caught: The Life and Times of Guy Clark.

Tamara talks about her favorite Guy Clark album ‘Dublin Blues’, how it illustrates two of the key relationships in Guy’s life - his wife (and fellow songwriter) Susanna and singer/songwriter Rodney Crowell. We talk about how songwriters use music to say to each other what they can’t always say in conversation, Guy’s legacy in Americana music, why Guy embraced co-writing and collaborating with young writers to the end, and his uncommonly direct way of scoring cocaine at gigs.

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My Favorite Album is a podcast on the impact great music has on our lives. Each episode features a guest on their favorite album of all time - why they love it, their history with the album and how it's influenced them.

Jeremy Dylan is a filmmaker, journalist, concert promoter and photographer. He directed the the feature music documentary Jim Lauderdale: The King of Broken Hearts (out now!) and the film Benjamin Sniddlegrass and the Cauldron of Penguins.

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- Tamara Saviano on Twitter.

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#167 - What does Trump mean for music?

My friend and occasional co-host Danny Yau joins to discuss what the impending Donald Trump Presidency might mean for art, protest music, the responsibility of artists to be political in their work, which musicians were most present in the election, how Obama’s embrace of music was unique and transformative and just how fucked we all are now.

Jesus Christ, what a fucking year.

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Back with regular album chats next week

#166 - A Tribute to Sir George Martin, the Fifth Beatle

What made Sir George Martin the Fifth Beatle? As a tribute to the late, legendary record producer, I sit down with Davey Lane (You Am I) and drummer Brett Wolfie to talk about Martin’s contributions to the greatest pop records ever made. We delve into:

- The tough decision he forced them to make that changed the band forever
- How Martin’s arranging skills made Can’t Buy Me Love a hit
- Sir George’s contribution as a musician on tracks like A Hard Day’s Night, Long Tall Sally and In My Life
- How his background in making comedy records with Peter Sellers helped him make Being for the Benefit of Mr Kite
- Why he walked out during the White Album sessions
- The production advice George Martin once gave me
- The George Martin tribute show Davey and Brett played together earlier this year
- The unusual covers of Beatles songs Martin produced later on in his career
- The time that John Lennon asked George to do the impossible, and how he did it
and more…

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My Favorite Album is a podcast on the impact great music has on our lives. Each episode features a guest on their favorite album of all time - why they love it, their history with the album and how it's influenced them.

Jeremy Dylan is a filmmaker, journalist, concert promoter and photographer. He directed the the feature music documentary Jim Lauderdale: The King of Broken Hearts (out now!) and the film Benjamin Sniddlegrass and the Cauldron of Penguins.

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#165 - John Oates on Joni Mitchell ‘Blue’

Legendary songwriter, singer, guitarist (and half of iconic duo Hall & Oates) John Oates on the album he holds as the gold standard of record-making, Joni Mitchell’s indelible classic ‘Blue’.

We talk about the impact the album had on John as he began working on the first Hall & Oates album, his experiences crossing paths with Joni through the years, why he considers her a brave songwriter, her connections to modern day confessional songwriters like Taylor Swift, why this had to be Joni’s fourth album and what the H&O classic ‘Maneater’ is really about.

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My Favorite Album is a podcast on the impact great music has on our lives. Each episode features a guest on their favorite album of all time - why they love it, their history with the album and how it's influenced them.

Jeremy Dylan is a filmmaker, journalist, concert promoter and photographer. He directed the the feature music documentary Jim Lauderdale: The King of Broken Hearts (out now!) and the film Benjamin Sniddlegrass and the Cauldron of Penguins.

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- John Oates on Twitter, Instagram, Facebook.

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#164 - Jimmy Vivino on the birth of the Max Weinberg 7, his relationship with Conan O’Brien, country music and the future of rock’n’roll

In a break with the regular show format, I’m bringing you a great conversation with legendary guitarist and bandleader Jimmy Vivino, backstage at the Conan, where he leads the Basic Cable Band. We taped this after our podcast on the classic ‘Super Session’ album (you can find that conversation here).

We talk about the origins and evolution of the Max Weinberg Seven (while Springsteen’s E Street Band were on hiatus) and its transformation into the Basic Cable Band, how he’s helped fellow “music head” Conan O’Brien develop as a guitarist during their 23 years of friendship, if he and Conan ever compete for rare guitars, how he looks back on the tumultuous split with NBC and how it reflects the changes in the music business.

We also chat about country music’s transformation into ‘AOR Rock’ and his concerns about the future of rock’n’roll, Jimmy tells a great Bill Monroe story from via Sam Bush, we discuss why music fans won’t let artists evolve, and why acoustic guitar legend Tommy Emmanuel makes him want to get a job at Starbucks.

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My Favorite Album is a podcast on the impact great music has on our lives. Each episode features a guest on their favorite album of all time - why they love it, their history with the album and how it's influenced them.

Jeremy Dylan is a filmmaker, journalist, concert promoter and photographer. He directed the the feature music documentary Jim Lauderdale: The King of Broken Hearts (out now!) and the film Benjamin Sniddlegrass and the Cauldron of Penguins.

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#163 - DJ Alix Brown on Lou Reed ‘Transformer’

DJ, serial band member (from the Angry Angles to Roya and many many more), stylist and quintessential New York transplant Alix Brown invites me into her NYC home for a conversation about the quintessential New York album (recorded in London) - Lou Reed’s 1972 ‘Transformer’.

We talk about how Reed working with producer David Bowie was the culmination of a transatlantic tennis match the Velvet Underground had started in the 60s, why Alix avoided meeting Lou Reed in person, whether there’s any of Lou Reed’s New York left today, Alix’s abandoned VU covers project and working with Mick Rock (who shot the Transformer album cover) soon after Reed’s death.

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My Favorite Album is a podcast on the impact great music has on our lives. Each episode features a guest on their favorite album of all time - why they love it, their history with the album and how it's influenced them.

Jeremy Dylan is a filmmaker, journalist, concert promoter and photographer. He directed the the feature music documentary Jim Lauderdale: The King of Broken Hearts (out now!) and the film Benjamin Sniddlegrass and the Cauldron of Penguins.

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#162 - Taylor Locke on The Pixies ‘Doolittle’, the album that inspired 90s alt-rock

Taylor Locke, co-founder of Rooney, Lindsay Buckingham in world renowned celebration of Fleetwood Mac “Rumors”, producer, studio owner and frontman of garage-pop outfit The Great Indoors, joins me to open the lid on the Pixies classic ‘Doolittle’ and how it shows them bursting out of their genre confines to make an pure rock classic LP, its influence on 90s rock, whether the album is “too pop” and why Pixies frontman Black Francis is like Taylor Swift and Bruce Springsteen.

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My Favorite Album is a podcast on the impact great music has on our lives. Each episode features a guest on their favorite album of all time - why they love it, their history with the album and how it's influenced them.

Jeremy Dylan is a filmmaker, journalist, concert promoter and photographer. He directed the the feature music documentary Jim Lauderdale: The King of Broken Hearts (out now!) and the film Benjamin Sniddlegrass and the Cauldron of Penguins.

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#161 - Harts on Prince ‘Around the World In A Day’ and jamming with Prince at Paisley Park

Melbourne singer/songwriter and ascendant guitar god Harts returns to the show to talk Prince’s classic 1985 follow up to ‘Purple Rain’ and dive deep on his relationship with Prince, jamming at Paisley Park, the compliment that made Prince cringe and how Prince’s death has changed the experience of listening to his records.

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My Favorite Album is a podcast on the impact great music has on our lives. Each episode features a guest on their favorite album of all time - why they love it, their history with the album and how it's influenced them.

Jeremy Dylan is a filmmaker, journalist, concert promoter and photographer. He directed the the feature music documentary Jim Lauderdale: The King of Broken Hearts (out now!) and the film Benjamin Sniddlegrass and the Cauldron of Penguins.

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- Harts on Twitter, Instagram, Facebook.

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#160 - Mark McKinnon on Kris Kristofferson, music vs politics & programming the President’s iPod

#RoadToAmericanaFest

Political strategist and co-host of the Circus, Mark McKinnon has spent decades in the A-league of ‘showbusiness for ugly people’ with both Democrats and Republicans, including as chief media strategist for President George W Bush. 

But before that, he was a singer-songwriter whose band caught the ear of Kris Kristofferson. Mark talks about how Kristofferson’s most iconic songs shook up country music, living in Kristofferson’s Nashville apartment in the 70s and trying to keep up with his lifestyle, what politicians could learn from great musicians, 'authenticity’ and Donald Trump, when Elvis Presley almost recorded one of his songs and programming President Bush’s iPod.

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My Favorite Album is a podcast on the impact great music has on our lives. Each episode features a guest on their favorite album of all time - why they love it, their history with the album and how it's influenced them.

Jeremy Dylan is a filmmaker, journalist, concert promoter and photographer. He directed the the feature music documentary Jim Lauderdale: The King of Broken Hearts (out now!) and the film Benjamin Sniddlegrass and the Cauldron of Penguins.

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- Mark McKinnon on Twitter, Instagram.

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#159 - Alan Brough on masculinity, punk and how The Blue Nile got him through a difficult teenage

Comedian, author, actor, Spicks and Specks team captain - Alan Brough’s favorite album found him years before any of those careers, when he was a self-described ‘crazy’ teenager. This is the story of how an obscure Scottish post-punk band helped him find a new way of being a man and get through his adolescence.

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My Favorite Album is a podcast on the impact great music has on our lives. Each episode features a guest on their favorite album of all time - why they love it, their history with the album and how it's influenced them.

Jeremy Dylan is a filmmaker, journalist, concert promoter and photographer. He directed the the feature music documentary Jim Lauderdale: The King of Broken Hearts (out now!) and the film Benjamin Sniddlegrass and the Cauldron of Penguins.

If you've got any feedback or suggestions, drop us a line at myfavoritealbumpodcast@gmail.com.

LINKS

- Alan Brough on Twitter, Facebook.

- Jeremy Dylan's website, Twitter, Instagram and Facebook page.

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- If you dig the show, please leave a rating or review of the show on iTunes here.